On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:34:46PM +0100, Paul Hammant wrote: > Maven's XML is too element normal for my liking. Attributes where > appropruate would be good.
Yes. But changing now would be quite a wrench, even with tools to translate the old dialect to the new. A lot of other code also understands POM documents nowadays. > Also deps and GAVs needs a shakeup, IMO: > > <deps> > <compile> > <dep>com.thoughtworks.xstream:xsteam:1.4.3</dep> > </compile> > <test> > <dep>org.junit:junit:4.12</dep> > <dep>org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.14159</dep> > </test> Please, no. <dependency group='org.junit' artifact='junit' version='4.12'/> perhaps. > Not being able to grep for specific GAVs is a critical flaw. Wrong tool. grep is for text, not structured documents. Try XQuery. But this is wandering away from "how can we avoid rebuilding unchanged stuff?" -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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